Heidi weber s relationship with le corbusier developed around his art and she constantly felt that there was more to be done and that there were new areas which required her attantion.
Heidi weber museum roof.
Paintings drawings and sculpture making it a gesamtkunstwerk.
Of course there were many positive votes but also plenty of negative.
Instead of a private villa she came up with the idea of creating a public building.
As heidi weber recalls it was the good economic results and the great success of her work as an interior decorator which allowed her to even conceive of entrusting the architect with the project of a building.
In 1960 she conceived the idea of a museum designed by le corbusier which could contain the entire collection of his plastic works his tapestries his.
A floating parasol roof structure and beneath it a two story rectilinear volume sitting on a concrete pavilion floor.
The pavillon le corbusier is a swiss art museum in zürich seefeld at zürichhorn dedicated to the work of the swiss architect le corbusier in 1960 heidi weber had the vision to establish a museum designed by le corbusier this building should exhibit his works of art in an ideal environment created by the architect himself in the then centre le corbusier or heidi weber museum.
The roof also functions as a sunshade for the patios this is hard to see in my pics.
Under the roof the body of the museum is organized in cubic modules of 2 26 meters per side corresponding to the measurements of the modulor.
The story behind the final building of le corbusier the pseudonym of charles édouard jeanneret gris begins with one woman his great patron.
During this period she organized numerous exhibitions to convey le corbusier s work and ideas as a total work of art to a broad public.
Since 2019 the listed pavillon le corbusier is operated by the museum für gestaltung zürich on behalf of the city of zurich.
Heidi weber approached corb to design a museum.
Heidi weber museum 1964 2014.
Heidi weber the interior designer collector and owner of the zurich galerie mezzanin who commissioned him to design the pavilion in 1960 originally designated as the centre le corbusier or the heidi weber museum.
Its arrangement reflects the theory of infinite growth something that had been proposed in museums in tokyo and chandigarh.
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Heidi weber directed and curated the museum for 50 years.
The building is composed of two major volumetric elements.
During the building permit phase of the museum there was much wrangling and heated debates in the local council of the city of zurich.